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Sunday’s Thought ( A Shabbat Prayer)
Well, it’s been a rough day for my religion. Christians are wearing me out. What happened to love everyone (everyone) the same way you love yourself? What happened to the Golden Rule? So, this Sunday’s Thought is from one of my very favorite traditions, the Reformed...
12/ 2
Today is sort of like our 9/11. A year ago there was a terrible storm and two people we loved died in a landslide and all of us were effected in one way or the other-- and then Phil, my beach walking friend Nene's husband who was a volunteer EMT and had helped so much...
Gratitude for All of It
Our Haines daughters were away for the holiday with their in-laws, and Papa Bob was tucked in at my sister's, so we decided to take the ferry to Juneau for Thanksgiving. A quick trip, since the schedule worked out (miracles of miracles), we brought the dogs for their...
Tenakee Postcard
The ferries to Tenakee are few and far between, and there are no roads to drive there on, (and even when you get there, no cars, just a trail for bikes, 4-wheelers and walkers) which means a float plane is the only way in or out most days, but since the weather was...
It’s Been a While Since I’ve Been Out
It all happened because I was asked to speak at the Association of Alaska School Boards conference in Anchorage, back in May, and I said yes. Then Covid went crazy again in Alaska, and I figured it would be virtual. Sigh. I mean, Zoom is okay, and it's very...
It’s November
Yes, it's November and it is still 2021, but in lots of ways feels like 2020. Still masked, still waiting for life to come back to normal. It's getting closer. I just returned from the pool, and there we all chat and swim and joke that the blue water may be as close...
Lighting Season
I love lights in the windows this time of year. Back in college, in Vermont one of my favorite things was a late afternoon walk up the hill from Middlebury to campus, when the yellow lights glowed in the windows of old white houses, the kind with pumpkins and mums on...